The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17

Calves that are fed on milk or cruel
need water as much as any stock.
Clean out the feet of the horses every
evening after their days work is done.
Guineas and turkeys are excellent
foragers, and destroy large number of
insects in a season.
There arc good and rich milkers in all
breeds of cows-only and always except
ing the pump-handle breed.
Weighing a cows milk will not cause
her to give any more milk, but may cause
her owner tu-substitute better one.
The more an acre will produce the
larger the profit, and the better you cul-
tivatc that acre the more it will produce.
Most farmers can keep few hives of
should be often found on the farmers ta-
bic.
Grade cattle, the produce of polled
bulls-whether Aberdeen-Angus, Gallo
way or Norfolk-seldom or never have
horns.
You will be likely to save trouble by
speaking kindly to your horses every
time you approach them in the stable or
elsewhere.
If you wish to raise a good many fowls
you must keep them in separate small
tlocks. Large numbers do not flourish
well together.
Small chickens should never be kept or
fed with old ones; they are apt to be in
jured. Have two or three yards, and
separate them according to size and
strength.
A writer in the New Hampshire Mirror
says any excellent mess for fattening
chickens is mashed potatoes, in the morn
ing, one-half, and cornmeal one half, fed
all they will eat.
Dampness is bad for young chicks.
Arrange their drinking vessels so that
they cannot get into them, and do not
allow them to run in the wet grass or to
be out in storm.
When the cocks have been picking
each other until the combs and wattles
bleed profuscly, pour strong alum water
over their heads, which will cause the
bleeding to cease.
Exercise is not conducive to laying on
flesh of fowls intended for market as the
birds do not thrive when closely confined
too long in coops, the process of fatten-
ing should be very quick one.
Where one horse dies from oVerworl1
in this country twenty die from exhaus-
ton or want of proper treatment. A
sound horse will withstand a great
amount of work if he has the right
kind of care while at it.
Copperas is a splendid medicine to
keep on hand for poultry. When they
have the roup wash their heads with
solution of it, and put some of the So
luton in the drinking water as tonic.
1t provides them with solute iron, which
is necessary.
If the calves and pigs were compelled
to forage for living, like the hens, they
would soon become a nuisance, and fail
to pay, yet the hen is sometimes ex-
pected to lay under the most adverse
condition. If she is to pay profit she
must receive the attention necessary to
enable her to perform all that may be re-
quired of her.
The oat is a splendid food for young
animals, because, compared with corn,
straw, etc, it is rich in muscle and bone
forming elements; and this also makes
it a splendid food for work animals.
Corn should be fed sparingly to work
animals, during the summer especially,
as it is a heating food. 1t will pay to
make the grain ration of oats in the
morning and at noon.
In keeping a horse fat there is as much
in the driver as in the feed. A horse
well curried, and rubbed with a wooden
rag afterward, is sure to make a sleek
coated horse, and when well groomed is,
We may say, half fed. A cross and nerv-
GUS driver will fill the horse with fear
and dread, and will rapidly run his horse
down. Use any animal kindly. Always
be firm and make it mind, but never get
excited. A cool-headed driver makes a
long headed horse.